Toward Speaking Excellence, Second Edition: The Michigan Guide to Maximizing Your Performance on the TSE(R) Test and Other Speaking Tests | 
| Author: Dean Steven Papajohn
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 436736
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.9 x 1
ISBN: 0472030868
Dewey Decimal Number: 428
EAN: 9780472030866
ASIN: 0472030868
Publication Date: February 16, 2005
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Product Description
The new edition of Toward Speaking Excellence addresses the recent changes to the Test of Spoken English (TSE). The text introduces readers to the format of the new TSE, typical questions, and scoring criteria. The second edition of Toward Speaking Excellence includes actual student responses that are used or modified to highlight specific characteristics of effective communication. Two complete sample TSE-like tests are included for further practice. Also provided are practice with some of the skills that, while no longer tested on the TSE, are key to sounding more native-like and fluent.
Toward Speaking Excellence may be used as an individual study tool or as a course text. While the material is directed toward the TSE and SPEAK tests, the communication strategies presented will prepare students for other types of oral exams (including the TAST, interviews, and performance tests. Toward Speaking Excellence is a course book but may also be used for individual test-preparation/self-study.
Dean Papajohn is a Specialist in Education at the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign..
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 Very helpful September 7, 2007
arrived before the expected date, in a great condition and it helped me a lot.
Lots of practice material June 9, 2007
Very nice book and lot of practice material. But sad side is that it doesn't have CD.
 Toward Speaking Excellence (2nd ed.): The Michigan Guide to Maximizing Your Performance on TSE March 9, 2007
This book is an indispensable tool for ESL/EFL instructors implementing speaking courses as well as tutoring for TSE test. It is really focused on enhancing non-native speakers' English communication skills.
 Hopeless book June 6, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of the useless book i have come across...the TSE exam which you will encounter is totally different than what they tell you in the book, furthermore, this book does not have good examples to practice... the authors should understand that TSE is about speaking and not writing or reading so by just reading this book there is no way anyone will understand how to speak in TSE.. I would not recommend this book to anyone
This is a very bad book May 27, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I can only assume that the authors are the ones that wrote the other reveiws. Half of the book has pictures for oral exercies, but it has no explaination or examples about how to speak correctly. The other half has exercises without explaination or answers. How can I learn if the book does not provide correct speaking examples. It may work for an instructor, but it is definately not a self study book. It might be an okay book if it contained a CD, but it does not so the book is really useless. I know this is a harsh review, but I don't want anyone else to waste their money.
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